10 Things About Mila

1. Mila is a Chocolate and Tan Miniature Dachshund. Currently she weights 3lbs, 4oz or 1.5kg as measured on my kitchen scale. Her eyes are kind of greenish-blue at the moment but could be classified as hazel. Apparently brown eyes in Chocolates is optimal as it means that the genetics have not been diluted. 

 

2. Trust me when I say Mila looks bigger in photos that in real life. 

Curled up she is smaller than my shoe

3. In a previous life, Mila was a songololo - a 'pill millipede' which rolls into a spring-like coil if alarmed. 

4. Mila can fly.

5. Mila thinks her leg is a drumstick.

6. Like any real New Yorker, Mila is obsessed with shoes.

 

So I gave her her own pair to chew:

7. Mila likes to go shopping as long as she can travel in style.

8. Mila knows how to rock the fall trends.

9. We took Mila to Puppy Socialisation for the first time yesterday and for the first half hour she was a little nervous.

However, after warming up she made a new friend, Dexter, the English Bulldog. I think he had bad breath.

10. Mila likes to do yoga in her sleep.

The Newest Member of Our Family

So it has been so long since I last posted. In fact, I think the format in Blogger has changed since I last logged in - that's how long. Sorry sorry!! I quit my job, packed up my apartment, moved to New York and now just got a puppy. When I say just got a puppy, I mean literally 6 days ago. I also haven't blogged for a while because there wasn't a whole bunch inspiring me to do so. Now that I am in arguably one of the most "inspiring" cities in the world, I think I have run out of excuses not to regularly attend to my blog. Most notably the biggest news is that of our 9 week old Miniature Dachshund puppy, Mila. Moving to New York, well that was a long time coming, but a puppy? My, I can hardly believe it. Whilst I have always wanted a dog since leaving home and thus leaving my home dogs, we have always put it off for one reason or another. Ryan had always promised that we would get a dog when we moved to New York but I kind of loosely interpreted that statement as I didn't want to get my hopes up. Little did I know that I would officially move to New York on a Saturday night and then we would be driving to New Jersey on Sunday morning to pick up Mila. It blows my mind.

A few weeks back, perhaps two, I was googling "Dachshund puppies New York" and came across a few websites. Whilst weeding out potential 'puppy mills', I came across a smaller breeder about an hour from us. I called her and asked about her puppies and mentioned that whilst I didn't really mind what the colouring of the dog was, I wanted a mini and a female, chocolate would be nice. Perhaps it was my enthusiastic tone, or the slight language barrier between myself and the Russian breeder, but I unexpectedly found myself reserving the one and only Chocolate Miniature Female Puppy. What?! Oh and she'll be ready to leave her mom a week from today.. Um.. OK. We can pick her up the weekend after that when I am in New York. OK, great, see you then. Holy moly. Fur parents. That's us. Us + fur baby = 

Welcome Mila. Remember this post? Scroll down to the last photo. Sometimes you just have to believe and things do come true.